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Doorways to Tranquility
Atop The Bayon the face of the Buddha surrounded us-dozens of stone faces, many over 20 feet tall. The aura consumed us and our minds quieted. It was as if the stones spoke to us, that there was some message we were responsible to carry back and share with others. Through each carved doorway we would see the Buddha, the goddesses-each bearing the essence of tranquility.
For our show, doors became the unifying element. We saw them as more symbolic than literal. The doorways capture the essence of Angkor Wat and they remind us that doorways to tranquility are really all around us. It's just that we usually miss them. For us, the doorways of The Bayon sparked an interest to create an exhibition we hoped would motivate others to look more closely for the doorways around them-and to step through them. Or, perhaps visit Cambodia themselves to see what we saw-and feel the spirits we felt.
Motivation For The Show:
There's a major contrast or discrepancy between life there and here-how much we throw away and what value that has or could provide for those people. Consider for example that in Cambodia $150 pays for a full year of English language study.
It's clear to us that even so, simply giving money is not the answer. Cambodia needs something scalable. We believe the right approach is to focus on creating an economic engine with which the Cambodians can bootstrap themselves up the economic ladder to wipe out hunger and build toward self-sufficiency. One of our motivations behind Doorways to Tranquility is to begin a project that is aimed at creating a foundation to jumpstart the education process. And so we have committed that half the moneys generated through the sale of art in the Doorways to Tranquility show will be dedicated to projects in Cambodia.
Artistis Interpretion:
The inception of the Doorways to Tranquility Project includes the collaborative efforts of visual artists Dana Kawano, Remarque Loy and Photographer John Dunham. A series of art pieces were created utilizing those images and inspiration from our journey through Southeast Asia. Medium format photography captured by John Dunham resulting in large images showing the essence of life. While Kawano and Loy
embrace a self developed technique called "Transfigurism," a style that combines Adobe PhotoShop techniques, photography, objects, scanning, and self-developed image-to-media transfer with oil painting and other traditional methods.
Through our efforts with hope to convey the beauty of culture and universal humanity.
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Dana Kawano
650.799.5888
tranzenart_gmail.com
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